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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: [NetBSD]:Should this happen?
Date: 11 Dec 1993 09:45:12 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Message-ID: <2ec4r8$2am@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca
Mooo!
I was sitting there wrestling with perl a little bit
tonight, when all of a sudden, machine locks up.
I can sort of hit ^C in one or two xterms, but then
eventually, the whole things locks up, and there
is massive disk activity.
About 60 seconds later, two of the programs I had just
started running (make, and ls) seg fault and
core dump, and then the mahcine comes back to
normal. Everything runs fine now.
HOWEVER, top now produces the following:
load averages: 0.03, 0.07, 0.15 02:40:25
23 processes: 22 sleeping, 1 running
Cpu states: 3.1% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 96.2% idle
Memory: Free: 7656K Active: 3988K Inactive: 1524K Wired: 1812K
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
689 root 28 0 35356K 992K run 6:02 0.68% 0.68% XF86_Mach32
692 root 2 0 34732K 412K sleep 0:24 0.24% 0.24% xterm
13226 root 28 0 33176K 364K run 0:00 0.05% 0.05% top
702 root 28 0 34764K 1332K run 0:12 0.00% 0.00% xterm
703 root 18 0 33096K 284K sleep 0:02 0.00% 0.00% csh
694 root 18 0 33016K 16K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% csh
96 root 18 0 764K 16K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% csh
70 root 18 0 716K 80K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% crond
68 root 18 0 520K 28K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% update
688 root 10 0 32924K 16K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% xinit
682 root 10 0 32868K 16K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sh
690 root 10 0 32856K 16K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sh
1 root 10 0 684K 16K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% init
These memory usage figures seem a little, how do you
say......
HIGH.
(ps produces similar output)
swapinfo produces (as expected really):
Device 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity
/dev/sd0b 69840 8452 61388 12%
Any idea of waht just happened? This is with
a generic 0.9 system, AHA 1542B, and a Micropolis
SCSI drive.
Marc 'em.
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Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA
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